Safety garment-rack.



J. WACHOWICZ.

SAFETY GARMENT RACK.

'APPLICATION IILED JAN. a1, 1914.

1,1 30,044. Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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J. WACHOWICZ.

SAFETY GARMBNT RACK.

APPLIGATION FILED JAN.21,1914.l

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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JACOB WACI-IOW'ICZ, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SAFETY GARMENT-RACK.

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Application filed January 31, 1914..

T0 ad whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, J Aoo VVACHOWIGZ, a subject of the Emperor of Austriallungary, residing at Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Safety Garment-Racks, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety garment racks and more especially to that class of such devices in which wearing apparel is suspended thereon and securely locked thereto.

A primary object of this invention is the provision of a garment support adapted for maintaining the clothing such as hat, coat and trousers in a well kept unmussed condition and securely locked against any possible theft of the clothing.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combined support to maintain a coat suspended from its shoulders and at the same time to support the trousers from the waist band thereof and to also maintain a hat in a top latch device.

A still further object is the provision of a garment support having a latch at the top thereof for maintaining a hat, cross arms for supporting a coat and a removable bar beneath the latter for suspension of the trousers and a novel manner of securely locking all of said garment to their common support.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention' is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

in the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device having a hat, coat and trousers securely locked in supported position thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device with the clothing removed therefrom. Figs. 3, 4: and 5 are vertical detail sectional views taken upon lines 3 3, 4-4 and 5 5 respectively of Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view taken upon line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

Referring more in detail to the drawings and to Fig. 2 thereof, the main supporting bracket 10 is noted as adapted to be secured Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lidar. 2, 1915.

Serial No. 815,678.

to a stationary member by the hold-fast device 11 inserted through the top perforation 12 thereof. Secured to the said bracket and a forward angular depending extension 13 thereof is a hollow link form of cross arm 14 readily adapted for insertion in the shoulder portions of the coat 15 for suspending the same.

Beneath and at both ends of the link 14 there are provided lugs 16 and 17 of the form shown by the detail views Figs. 4: and 5 and which are adapted to receive and suspend therein a horizontal trousers supporting bar 18. rlifhe lug 16 is provided with a socket 19 for receiving one end of the bar 18 while the lug 17 is of a general hook form having a circular opening 20 with an entrance slot 21 and adapted to receive the squared end 22 of the supporting bar through said slot and upon a half turn of the bar to ock the latter in position within said hook A slot 23 extends through the bracket adyacent the top portion thereof in which is adapted to vertically slide a locking hook 24 having its free end constituting a jaw 25 for coperating with an upwardly extending jaw 26 upon the angular member 13. Alining perforations 27 are positioned transversely of the bracket 10 within the plane of the slot 23 and adapted to receive a locking pin 28 therethrough at a point adjacent the locking hook 24 when lowered and thereby preventing any upward movement of said arm when the pin is in position.

A chain 29 is permanently secured by means of the rings 30 and 31 to the eXtension 13 and the pin 28.

The operation of supporting and locking the clothing upon my improved bracket will be at once apparent from the above detailed description and upon a reference to Fig. 1. The trousers 32 are suspended upon the bar 18 by removing the bar from its supporting lugs and threading the same through the Suspenders or tape supports of the trousers and then remounting the bar in said lugs. The coat 15 is placed over the cross arm 13 in the usual manner and supported by the shoulder portions thereof, while the hat 33 is engaged by its rim between the jaws 25 and 26 upon opening the jaws by moving the hook 24C upwardly after the locking pin 28 has been removed. With said locking pin removed from the perforations 27 of the bracket, said pin is employed to thread the chain 29 through one or more of the button holes 34 of the coat and through one or more of the belt straps 35 of the trousers, after which itis placed in position upon the bracket 10 for locking the hat 'within' the engaging jaws while'a padlock 36 is locked through the perforation 37 of the'pin and thus preventing a removal of the pin bya thief or unauthorized person and locking all ofthe garments together and to the support. Y

It is evident that minor changes may be madein the details of this device aswell as in theVv form and proportion of its different f tation of the same for holding other garments such as waists and skirts is also con templated.

Having thus described my invention and in what manner the sameis designed for use,

' what I claimy and desire to'protect by Letters Patent of the-United States is A combination hat and garment hanger comprising. a bracket formed with a vertical Copies ofhthisvpatent may bey obtaine foi'v ve cen-ts each, by -addressingthe Commissionerv of Patents,

sloti'adjacent"toits outerV endi an angular depending arm projecting from said bracket below said slotand formed with an upf wardlyextending jaw, a `complem'ental jaw member slidably mounted in saidV bracket slotcoperating with said first-named jaw,

said bracket being further providedv withV memberto hold-the jaws in locked position, Y.

a chain connected at one of its-ends to said bar and atits otherend to*saiddepending arm, said -bar adapted to project laterally of the bracket at the side opposite its entrance thereto, and means associated with the projecting end of the bar to prevent its removal. i Y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

' JACOB WACI-IOWICZr Witnesses: i Y i JOHNA KAMINSKI, JAN. GNTOUSKI.

Washington, D. C. 

